Deplorables (eBook)

America Interrupted

Q (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
302 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-6678-0030-1 (ISBN)

Infos

After an endless slew of best sellers dwelling upon the dastardly deeds of Donald Trump, at last an unvarnished look at the real threat we face as a nation when we complacently ignore evil that has hidden in plain sight for years. Whether you have sheltered in place to the left or to the right of the commendable gooey center of this 'American Life', The Deplorables: America Interrupted will challenge your conception of the events occurring over the last five years that have brought us to this anxious moment in American history. Is Ignorance really bliss? Not if it edges you toward violent social anarchy. And not if it blinds you to an evil we thought was a relic of a racially inhospitable past but now threatens to overwhelm polite society again. As the author reminds us 'the Deplorables are not a collegial bunch. Like their de facto cult hero Donald Trump, they will respond to your misplaced passivism with a bare knuckles beat down. Left to their own devices, they will tear to ground every vestige of a civilized America.' Join the author Q for a sobering look at the events of the last several years and the implications for a bare knuckles brawl between Deplorables and Commendables that is just beginning over what actually makes America great. Laugh and cry at the comic and tragic dimensions of this dilemma. Re-live recent key events with an informed, attuned eye and ear. But, heed Q's warning about becoming complacent. There is nothing like a violent insurrection attempt and a Capitol riot to clarify the enemy's intentions. Read the Deplorables: America Interrupted.

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After an endless slew of best sellers dwelling upon the dastardly deeds of Donald Trump, at last an unvarnished look at the real threat we face as a nation when we complacently ignore evil that has hidden in plain sight for years. Whether you have sheltered in place to the left or to the right of the commendable gooey center of this "e;American Life"e;, The Deplorables: America Interrupted will challenge your conception of the events occurring over the last five years that have brought us to this anxious moment in American history. Is Ignorance really bliss? Not if it edges you toward violent social anarchy. And not if it blinds you to an evil we thought was a relic of a racially inhospitable past but now threatens to overwhelm polite society again. As the author reminds us "e;the Deplorables are not a collegial bunch. Like their de facto cult hero Donald Trump, they will respond to your misplaced passivism with a bare knuckles beat down. Left to their own devices, they will tear to ground every vestige of a civilized America."e;Join the author Q for a sobering look at the events of the last several years and the implications for a bare knuckles brawl between Deplorables and Commendables that is just beginning over what actually makes America great. Laugh and cry at the comic and tragic dimensions of this dilemma. Re-live recent key events with an informed, attuned eye and ear. But, heed Q's warning about becoming complacent. There is nothing like a violent insurrection attempt and a Capitol riot to clarify the enemy's intentions. Read the Deplorables: America Interrupted.

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Chapter Two

Facebook Fun

 

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was a very late Facebook adopter. In fact, it was actually the Deplorables that drove me to make my first regular appearances only 11 years ago. After a few years of semiannual visits to discover which of the juvenile delinquents I ran with back in the day were either dead or in prison, I stumbled upon a post from one of my few Facebook “friends” that I simply couldn’t resist responding to. Apparently Christians believed that the then recently elected president, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, was the Antichrist and heralded the coming Apocalypse. And to think I believed he was just a one term Democratic Senator from Illinois who won the 2007 presidential election.

My friend demurred by inquiring simply “Do you believe…?” as in, I’m not sure I do, but maybe others may look at dumbfukery less skeptically, especially if it provides the only explanation for why their children haven’t called them since 1992 though they live only 3 doors down. It was the very first response to this tease that caught my eye. “If Barack Hussein Obama is Mabus, or the Antichrist himself, as predicted by Nostradamus hundreds of years ago, shouldn’t he be hanged?” He actually wrote “hung” but why quibble over grammar with a poster who would put a bullet through my head just for mentioning it? Plus, five other words were butchered anyway. Talk about a religious experience! At this point, the discussion thread had amassed over 4000 comments, and this gentleman collected 360 likes for cheerleading the hanging of a sitting president. So that happened, and not under extreme duress in a police interrogation room either. Maybe I am a glutton for punishment but, in that moment, I had to determine if the participants knew their comments were actually visible. A few immediate questions occurred to me. Who was this “Christian”? Was he a danger to himself and others? Was he riddled with drug induced PTSD? Would the authorities soon be battering open the door to his double wide trailer? Once inside, would they find 1000 pounds of fertilizer, 150 AK 47s, 10,000 rounds of ammo, and a hairless cat in a Christmas vest? I was so blown away by the anti-social carnage of his comment, I forgot how hundreds of likeminded lepers had already high fived him for this hate smut. Immediately overcome with morbid curiosity, like from following an 80 year old man in yoga pants and a fedora through an Alabama Walmart, I began picking through the wreckage that followed. Certainly, this comment was the proverbial red headed step child, and every other post would be iced tea, hopscotch and poodle skirts, right? Next, a helpful middle aged white lady from Ashtabula reminded us that Revelations told of the Antichrist being a leopard descended from Nimrod and born in Kenya. “Obama was born in Kenya” offered the next 3 posters within seconds of each other followed by two “Amens.” Slowly, others joined in to piece together the story, as they had understood it, from a sketchy email they all happened to receive but failed to question why. The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal. He will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA? “Yes it is Obama.” “Obama.” “Obama.” “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” followed by a few more “Hang him”(s) and “Amens.” After absorbing this moving gospel, I offered a playful quip; “How do you know the antichrist isn’t really Foghorn Leghorn just pretending to be Obama?” Apparently, my fellow posters resented the levity I brought to this weighty existential matter as they began pelting me with baseless accusations of crimes I allegedly committed against humanity including pedophilia, terrorism and worst of all, being a libtard! One pleasant lady even said this: “Oh shut up, you are coming back as an illegal and hope they find you soon. Get the F off of this page if you don’t support it.” Yes, she actually attacked me for not supporting the idea that we should hang the sitting president of the US for being the Antichrist!!

Another alert poster pointed out Obama’s uncanny resemblance to a Zulu witch doctor and illustrated this with a picture in case we weren’t clear on the reference. On cue, several folks dropped heart like emojis in celebration. Now, in fairness, maybe these outwardly aggressive comments were not racist at all. I mean, when I inquired, they were quick to point out how only the libtards played the race card for every little thing, and that any real racism was hate directed at the white man or the Christians these days. Then they told me to go fuck myself so I am sure I was just being a little too sensitive. Welcome to the cesspool where the dregs of society, the misfits and the bottom feeding degenerates come to wallow in outrage and hate porn. Some onlookers might have fled from this freak show in horror, or phoned the authorities at least. Not me, I was reeled in like a guppy on a 100# steel braided test line. I am a sucker for a dumpster fire.

Being gob smacked like that by such blind rage and hate was a little disconcerting for this mild mannered Middle-American suburbanite, but the social scientist and sadomasochist in me was hooked. The comments were hazmat for sure, but what of the creatures who oozed this toxic waste so unapologetically? Were they unwitting victims of their social environment, or were they actively and willfully creating their own unhinged reality? Along my journey, I had to trash my first thesis that they were simply empty receptacles strategically injected with an outrage virus bomb by their intellectual superiors for political gain. Certainly, cunning rightwing talking heads staked their eight figure empires on mobilizing reliably awful people for influence and huge ratings. But this gunk also appeared to be pretty foundational for them like reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. There is an absolute wasteland of pseudo intellectual rightwing goo vying to impregnate impressionable, small, and hateful minds. And, there is endless tin foil-hat-wearing conspiracy activating the circulatory system of this body politic. But, there is innate evil lurking there, too. The question is, would the barely literate and bigoted among us simply open a perfectly good vein and mainline this with uncritical abandon, or must they be inherently flawed children of a lesser God? Maybe they were thalidomide babies who ultimately succumbed to a host of psychological personality disorders. Perhaps they were the tragic result of a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong. Chicken or egg? I came to learn all of this is likely at play and has created a positively electric feedback loop. And nothing lubricates this supercharged track slicker than the fragility of white identity.

Years later, as I viewed the Deplorables through the lens of their cult hero, Donald J. Trump, much of this became better contextualized for me. Unlike their new de facto leader for whom performance art was about building the image of a predator, the Deplorables had nothing tangible to gain from publically flaunting their loathsomeness. They came by their awfulness naturally. When the Donald spoke to their very souls by baselessly accusing the 44th president of the US of secretly being a Muslim born terrorist and illegitimate holder of the office, the cult leader knew what the cult did not. That it was pure bullshit. Indeed, the Deplorables believed exactly what they wanted to believe, not for personal aggrandizement, but because it was deep in their genes to regard the very idea of a black president as something threateningly evil. As such, long after Trump admitted Obama was born in America, debates still raged in rightwing chatrooms about the fraud of Obama’s birth certificate and how his Muslim ancestry surely made him a terrorist sympathizer, or terrorist himself. We live in a purely vulgar age, and no one channels the vapid and vulgar imaginations of the perpetually outraged like Donald J. Trump. But it is the willful ignorance of those consumed with amorphous rage over lost privilege that has perpetuated so many vicious fictions that will long outlive Trump’s leadership.

Another lie the Deplorables feasted upon, courtesy of Trump, was the notion that brown immigrants, Mexicans specifically, meant them both physical and economic harm. They were rapists and murderers who wanted to suck up all of our tax dollars and social entitlements. We certainly would have no way of sussing out Trump’s true feelings on this matter, but we know the Deplorables only approve of legal white immigrants for whom they feel they have far more in common with and assume don’t want our riches. Immigrants, illegally here or otherwise, from Central and South America are scary brown people who want to invade...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-6678-0030-2 / 1667800302
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6678-0030-1 / 9781667800301